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RESTAURANT INNOVATION AT EAST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTSMAY GET AN APPETI2ING MEALAT A
MODERATE PRICE IN A WELL-LIGHTED ROOM
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BV LILIAN TINGLE.
NOT the least important and interest
ing feature of tlio equipment of the
East Side Hiifh School is the stu
dents' cafeteria, on the ground floor.
Jlcre, at most moderate prices, every boy
and girl has an opportunity to purchase
a lunch, both wholesome and appetiz
ixz, or to supplement, with good. cixamy
milk, hot chocftlate or nourishing soup,
the lunrch brought from home.
The room is clean, pleasant, and well
lighted and capable of accommodating
about 200 pupils at once; and, as each
one Is his own waiter, the service is
easy and prompt. The food, arranged all
ready on shelves and counters, within
easy-reach of the hungry crowd that files
In at the noon recess, is not only good in
quality, but attractive In appearance.
The menu which I sampled on a recent
visit, was as follows:
P.ice tomato soup, with unlimited crackers.
R cents. Individual veal pies, with potato
crust. T cents. Ham sandwiches, 3 cents.
Hot buttered roll, 'i for 6 cents. Shrimp
lalad, 3 cents. Pineapple and custard. 3
cents. OraniceF. . Lemon, pumpkin or cus
tard pie. ft cents. Apple pie, 4 cents. FiK.
chocolate or orance cake. 0 cents. Sp'ongo
squares. 2 for 6 cents. Milk, 3 -cents. Choc
olate. 4 cents.
Visits on other occasions revealed such
dishes of clam chowder, home-made egg
noodle soup, oyster patties, roast mutton
0iandwich.es, minced beef pie, creamed hal
ibut, chocolate pudding with whipped
cream, fruit Jn jelly with whipped cream,
potato and egg salad, 'Waldorf salad and
the assorted pies and cakes which the
achool boy or school girl appetite de
mands. Except for an occasional chicken
pie, which costs 10 cents, no 3ish is
higher In price than 7 cents. All soups,
except chowder, are 3 cents: salads and
sandwiches are the same price. lesserts
cost from 3 to 6 cents, according, to 'kind:
and all portions are decidedly generous
in size.
It in easily seen, therefore, that, with
a little care and judgment in selection,
any student can obtain a satisfying hot
lunch for 10 or 15 cents or even less. If
something is brought from ihome.
A proper lunch often makes all the dif
ference between good and bad school
work, and it is interesting to note the
teacher's report a marked improvement
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in the average of afternoon recitations lection from the bill of fare sent up to bag" lunch, will appreciate what this Gage, the manager of the lunchroom, has ity at the lowest cost to the students. And
since the Introduction of the lunchroom, the teachers' lunchrooms, on the second means in getting the best work from the made a study of food selection and cook- the frequenters of the lunchroom seem
It affects the teachers directly as well and third floors. Anyone who has ever teachers, as well as from the pupil. cry for her own family", and attends per- heartily to reciprocate her friendly inter
as indirectly, too, for they, uy leaving been in the habit of trying to do very ' The cooking is done on "home" rather sonally to both the marketing and prepa- est.
orders in the morning, can have any se- taxing afternoon work -on a cold "paper than "restaurant'' principles, for Mrs. ration, in order to secure the best quul- There is no constraint in the lunchroom.
but good behaviour and neat table man
ners prevail to a gratifying extent.
On the other hand, it must be confessed
that all do not show good judgment in
their choice of fare, and lack of sound
home training in regard to food as well aa
the perversity of youthful human nature
is often apparent to the quiet, unpreju
diced observer.
A visit to any school during the lunch
hour Is a valuable experience for any
mother; but few teem to have tho time
or the Interest for such visits. Unfortu
nately, the majority of parents do not
appear to realize the undoubted fact reit-
erated by all authorities, both educational
and hygienic, that "ignorance of the
simplest principles of dietetics is the cause
of more disaster in school life than any
other one cause; and the most important
and most frequently abused dietary prin
ciple is regularity 'of eating and absenco
of hurry."
Said one pale-faced, growing girl to an
other In the hallway at recess: "Arc you
going to cat lunch today, or candy?"
Krom her appearance I should say the
latter choice was most frequent.
Then there is tho girl who select.s two
or three different kinds of dessert for
lunch; end another ono who produces
pickles from home and combines them
with oranges and salad only: and the boy
who never eats anything but pie for his
mid-day meal.
Moreover, there are the boys and girls
who prefer to buy mince pie, Wiener
wurst and coffee at any corner grocery;
where, as one boy put It. "you don't have
to eat it with a fork, and you can have
the juicw run up your sleeve and throw
the plate Into some one's yard and feel
you're having a good time."
There are always boys who greatly pre
fer this ort or thing. Just as there are
men who actually enjoy the barbarity of
"quick lunch" table manners, and women
who. if left to themselves, will stand up
and take a hasty bite In the pantry In
stead of sitting down to lunch like reason
able human beings. Something has to be
done, I suppose, to keep up our National
reputation for dynpepsla, and some of
these young people are certainly doing
their part. . But there are indications
everywhere that parents, teachers and
school boards are awakening to the pro
found importance of the school lunch
problem; and our High School lunchroom
Is simply one of tiie many signs of Im
provement In this matter.
FRANCIS RICHTER AND A PROMISING COMPOSER
THE PORTLAND MUSICIAN AND A FRIEND NOW
WORSHIP HERMANN BISCHOFF WHO PROMISES
TO BECOME FAMOUS.
BY ALMA A. ROGERS.
THE3RE3 are signs that the concert sea
son is approaching the close. The
advertisements in the Sunday pa
pers, which for many months past have
covered pages with a bewildering variety
of musical offerings, are beginning to thin
out, end there are fewer famous names
among those that still appear.
The task, therefore, of making selec
tions is becoming less onerous. This has
been a regular part of our Sunday break
fasts throughout the Winter, and it has
really required a nice discretion' joined to
sound musical taste to select such con
certs as will cover the moat ground in ed
ucative results. ' For concert-going, to
Krancis Richter has not been simply a
pleasure. It is an education quite as im
portant as regular lessons with instruct
ors. Every composition heard In this way
is a study In orchestration and general
musical coloring.
So with our coffee and rolls have come
the Freie Presse and the scissors. The
I'Yeio Presse is Wlen's leading daily. Tho
Oerman papers are much smaller than
the American, and quite without the
startlim? head lines and illustratiqns that
are a feature of the modern newspaper.
The advertisements of concerts are con
veniently grouped, with programmes ap
pended, and prices. After the list has
been made out comes the buying of seats,
a process that often consumes much time.
I have never yet quite gotten over my as
tonishment at the crowds that have filled
nearly every concert hall where we have
been present. There have been some ex
ceptions. Oddly enough, Babrllowitch,
who draws so well in America, had but a
small attendance here, ' and there have
been a few others. But a packed house
end enthusiastic audience are the rule.
New Light in the Firmament.
There was a striking illustration of this
last Sunday. Francis Richter and his
friend Marcel de Bouzon came home from
the Philharmonic in such a state of ex
citement they could scarcely eat their
dinner. It was the greatest music they
have ever heard in their lives. They
were sure of it, and Strauss was the king
of conductors. They have worn their
hands out applauding and then stood up
and shouted bravos with the rest, while
Dr. Strauss was forced to reappear more
times than a prima donna does who has
"retired" from the stage. But most as
tonishing of all, the boys had foresworn
their allegiance to the Ninth Symphony,
which heretofore has held first place in
their hearts, in favor of a new composer,
Hermann Bischoff, and his symphony in
B major. ' This is a composition In the
modern spirit, but not so extreme as the
Strauss style. As both these young crit
ics are endowed with fine musical taste,
doubtless their judgment is sound, and It
may be that this letter which will soon
be dust, records the coming of a future
immortal.
A concert that had a .delightful Old
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. PAR1JAMEKT HOUSE. VIENNA, ONE OF NCMEROCS IMPOSING STRCCTl'RKS WHICH GIVE THE RIN(TIt.SSE TIIE REPUTATION OF BEING MOST BEAUTIFUL STREET IN WORLD.
World flavor was that of tho Ancient In
struments. A society, of which the ven
erable French composer Saint Saens is
president exists for the preservation and
exploitation of certain instruments which
have passed out of public use and are now
known only to the musical antiquarian.
There were five of them, the viole d'ar
mour, viole de ganiba, quinton, basse de
viole and a clavecin.
The first three resemble Ihc modern
violin in appearance, though the keying
and other structural points are quite dif
ferent. The story runs that when the
viole d'amour was first heard it wrought
the people to such a fervor of love-madness
that they bestowed upon it the
name. It yields a very sweet and beau
tiful tone, and in the hands of the skill
ful performer of the evening won him
many recalls.
The basse de viole Is similar to the
modern bass viol. The four strings
played some lovely chamber music, ac
companied by the clavecin. This instru
ment looks like a small grand piano, ex
cept that it has two banks of keys. The
tone suggests the spinet in its quaint
thinness.
The entire concert afforded the . most
delightful and exquisitely unusual enjoy
ment Imaginable. It was as if several
centuries had. dropped away and we were
suddenly transported back to the days
when ladies dressed like the figures on
Dresden china and all gentlemen were
powdered 'and beribboned knights in vel
vet knee breeches and laces, ever gallant
in love and forward in war.
The soloist of the company, a tall young
French woman, enhanced the effect of
the' evening by her beauty and the
charming simplicity of manner In which
she rendered old songs of the 16th cen
tury. All . the performers were artists
and their work left such an impression
as one might feel who unexpectedly
stumbles upon some rare, old-fashioned
flower of surpassing fragrance in a mod
ern garden.
Beautiful Concert Halls.
The Ehrbar saal, in which this concert
took place, was a fitting vase for the
flower. It is very small, but so exquis
itely designed and decorated that it is
like a cameo perfectly wrought. Nearly
all of the public halls are, to my taste,
overdone in decoration, but here, for the
first time, gold paint was conspicuous
by its absence. The Greek spirit per
vades the treatment both of designs and
decoration in the Ehrbar saal, with a
suggestion of the Egyptian supplied by
two antique figures at the stage end. I
wished much to get a picture of it, but
could find none.
Another saal which I have long In
tended to describe but have postponed
in the hope of being able to secure photo
graphs. Is the grand music hall of the
conservatory where the philharmonic
concerts are "given. . Photographs are. not
obtainable, so I shall try to give some
idea of it by words.
First, then, it is the most beautiful
concert hall in "Vienna. Tho decorations
are elaborately rich, but so perfectly
balanced that the total effect is one
of beauty and not excess. The auditor
ium Is very spacious, with two open gal
leries a few seats deep on three sides,
the lower one. which is but slightly ele
vated above the parquette, being divided
into boxes.
As "one enters tho saal for the first
time the splendor is really imposing.
Gold gleams from the walls, the ceiling,
the long rows of silent caryatids with
hands crossed on their breasts which sup
port ' the upper gallery. You feel as if
you were in a palace of gold, and so you
are truly, but for some reason it Is not
bizarre. A closer Investigation reveals
the art of It. Tne gold is everywhere on
walls and ceiling relieved by bronze. The
combination of these two rich elements
in perfect taste in fine and "elaborate de
signs creates a total effect of superlative
richness which increases with each see
ing. ...
But more attractive to me than the
gold and bronze arabesques and the fres
coed panels of the high ceiling are the
golden caryatids mentioned. There are
two rows of them, with 16 figures In a
row. perhaps six feet apart. Before the
doors which open on each side to admit
to the boxes, the figures are grouped In
twos.
Fascinating Decoration.
They are entirely of old, and the
contrast with the subdued effects of
the hall Is very fine. They stand so
silent and so motionless that they
never, fail' to fascinate me, and some
times it Is so easy to forget that they
are merely pillars these carven wom
en.' They become sphinxes, propound
ing unanswerable questions, and with
unrevealed secrets locked in their
gilded hearts.
I am afraid that on a good many
occasions some of the finest effects of
the Philharmonic orchestras have been
quite lost on me because I have yielded
up the sense of time and place at the
command of these sphinxes. The music
melts into a rich background of un
obtrusive melody, which pulsates like
a silken curtain shot with gold and
silver threads and glittering jewels be
hind the two long rows of sphinxes.
The end comes suddenly with the shock
of shrilly clapping hands and unmusi
cal bravos, and I wake up with a guil
ty feeling that some one more deserv
ing should have had my ticket. But
when I utter that worn out remark.
"Wasn't It finer" in answer to my
companions, I mean it. It was, for It
is the waves of music that unlock the
lips of the sphinxes.
. .Vienna possesses some magnificent
pubile buildings. This week I am giving-
a view of the parliament house,
which is the seat of the legislative
bodies. : Of these there are two
a house of lords, and a lower house
of representatives , or deputies. A con
stitution was granted to Austria by
the present Kniperor, the good Franz
Joseph, In 1S61.
A parliament hout.e is built in the
style of a Greek temple, it Is one of
a number of Imposing structures which
give the Ringstrasse the reputation of
being the most beautiful street in the
world. When upon my first walk in
Vienna, I came upon It, it seemed as
if I uad been suddenly let down in
Athens and beheld the Parthenon of
my dreams on second thoughts, with
some modifications, the architecture
not being pure Doric.
The extension on the left Is the
chamber of the lords, where they sit
in executive session. That on the right
Is" devoted to. the deputies. Much space
Is given to columned nails and com
mittee rooms. The Inside Is not par
ticularly fine. I greatly prefer our
own Capitol. But just above the main
entrance floors Is very beautiful
piece of mosaic, with life sitse figures,
which extends the length of the por
tico. The steps sloping down to the
street are made impressive by the
sculptures of ancient Greek and Roman
heroes which are placed on either side
of the descent.
. I attended a session of the house of
deputies In the hope of seeing some of
the exciting times that frequently oc
cur. There had just been an emotional
tempest of these excitable tempera
ments when cl.air-f linging and fist
fights had obstructed the order' of busi
ness, and one man had bit the nose of
a fellow law-maker. Not that I had
any desire to see that part of the per
formance! 1 could have exclaimed
with Madam Roland: "O. Liberty,
what crimes are committed in thy
name!" But a little smasnlng up of
chairs would have lent zest to the spell
of dull weather, :ind removed the im
press, momentarily, at least, of the
grime of a court wohnung.
So we went. Not a thing happened,
though we waited a long afternoon. All
was as calm as the sea after a storm.
Various speeches were made, each man
standing up at his desk and attended
only by such auditors as cared to hear.
Nobody else paid the slightest atten
tion to the orators, who all read from
manuscript. The only speech that inter
ested me was one' in t lie Bohemian
tongue made by a man with fierce hair
and top boots whose seat was close un
der our position in the gallery, so I
could hear the enunciation. It was like
the spit, sputter of a tire-cracker, a se
ries of small explosions, in fact. Of
course, of what he spoke I had not the
slightest idea, but he furnished a good
piece of comedy. I am glad the English
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